Astronomy Milestones of 2009 !

Discovery of Lunar Water traces by Chandrayaan-1 Rated as No.1 Astronomy Milestones of 2009 - Space.com, December 28, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Spinoff Technology for Detecting Water on Earth

Chandrayaan-1 Spinoff technologies to help identify water location in places like Rajasthan - The Hindu, December 14, 2009

SARA Instrument of Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft Confirms Origin of Lunar Water

How the Moon Produces Its Own Water - Science Daily, October 19, 2009.

Hydrogen offers a new way to study Moon - ESA Space Science, October 16, 2009.

SARA (Sub Kev Atom reflecting Analyser ) Instrument in Chandrayaan-1

Like a Big Sponge, Moon Absorbs Charged Particles to Produce Water - The Hindu, October 15, 2009.

The Water-generating Moon: SARA Instrument Onboard Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft Confirms Solar Wind as Key Player in Generating Moon Water - AstronomyNow.com, October 15, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Finds Water In Lunar Surface

NASA Instrument Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) Reveal Traces of Water Molecules On Lunar Surface - NASA Press Release, September 24, 2009.

Character and Spatial Distribution of OH/H2O on the Surface of the Moon Seen by M3 on Chandrayaan-1 - Science, AAAS, September 24, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Finds Traces of Water on Moon - The Hindu, September 24, 2009.

Scientists Announce Evidence of Water on the Moon - AstronomyNow, September 25, 2009.

Indian Orbiter Produces Evidence for Water on Moon - Planetary.Org, September 25, 2009.

Remote Sensing of Moon - A Brief Analysis of Chandrayaan-1 Instruments Results - ISRO, September 25, 2009.

Lunar Surprise: A Secial Report on Chandrayaan-1 Mission and Results - Frontline Magazine, Oct. 23, 2009.

Science from Chandrayaan-1 Mission

Chandrayaan-1 X-Ray Spectrometer (C1XS) Detects Moon's Minerals as Solar Flares Shine its Surface - The Hindu, September 19, 2009.

Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) Onboard Chandrayaan-1 Captures Halo Around Apollo-15 Landing Site Using Stereoscopic Views - Current Science, September 10, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Enables Study of Interaction between Solar Wind and a Planetary Body without a Magnetic Field - Space Daily, September 10, 2009.

Scientists Delighted Over Data Gathered by Chandrayaan-1 Mission - India Today, September 09, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Scientists Meet in Bangalore - ISRO PR, September 08, 2009.

American Astronautics Society (AIAA) Award for Chandrayann-1

Chandrayaan-1 Mission Receives American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 2009 Space Systems Award at SPACE 2009 Conference - AIAA Press Release, August 31, 2009.

American Astronautics Society Award for Chandrayaan-1 Team - Domain-b.com, September 01, 2009.

Space Systems Award for Chandrayaan-1 Mission - The Hindu, September 6, 2009.

Mission Over: Chandrayaan-1 Radio Communication with ISRO Lost

Moon's Heat hastened Indian Probe's demise - New Scientist, September 08, 2009.

India's First Moon Mission is a 'Mixed Success' - BBC Online, August 31, 2009.

Indian Scientists Hail Aborted Lunar Mission a Success - Space Daily, August 30, 2009.

Adieu, Chandrayaan-1 - The Hindu (editorial), August 30, 2009.

India's First Moon Mission is Over as Chandrayaan-1 loses Radio Communication with ISRO - The Hindu, August 29, 2009.

India's First Moon Mission 'Over': Space Agency - Sydney Morning Herald, August 29, 2009.

ISRO Announces Abrupt end of mission for Chandrayaan-1 - Hindustan Times, August 29, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1: ISRO Loses Contact and Claims Mission 'Over' - Times of India, August 29, 2009.

NASA and ISRO Satellites Search for Lunar Water in Tandem

Unprecedented Lunar Ice Search 'Bi-static Experiment' Completed by NASA and ISRO Satellites - Aviation Week, August 21, 2009.

NASA and ISRO Satellites (LRO and Chandrayaan-1) Perform in Tandem in Search of Water on the Moon - NASA PR, August 20, 2009.

ISRO and NASA Team Up to locate Water-Ice on the Moon - The Hindu, august 21, 2009.

ISRO Releases Images of Moon Craters taken by Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) Onboard Chandrayaan-1

NASA's M3 Instrument Beholds Home from Moon Orbit

Nasa's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) Instrument Onboard Chandrayaan-1 Beholds Earth from its 200 KM orbit around the Moon - NASA PR, August 03, 2009.

Lunar Mapper (M3) Beholds Earth - Space Daily, August 05, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1: End of the Orbit by 2010? - The Hindu, August 06, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Completes 3,000 Orbits around the Moon

Images Taken by Chandrayaan-1 from 200 KM Orbit around the Moon

India's First Moon probe has completed 3,000 revolutions around the Moon and has sent over 70,000 images for scientific analysis - ISRO, July 17, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Complates 3000 Orbits around the Moon - Space Daily, July 22, 2009.

Star-Sensor Onboard Chandrayaan-1 Fails, Gyroscopes and antenna pointing mechanism activated

Chandrayaan sensor fails; craft's life may be reduced - The Hindu, July 17, 2009.

Sensor failure not to affect moon mission, says ISRO - Times of India, July 17, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Orbit Raised

ISRO Places Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft at 200 km Altitude to Study Orbit Perturbations and Gravitational Field Variations - The Hindu, May 21, 2009.

The Orbit of Chandrayaan-1 Raised - ISRO Press Release, May 21, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Takes its First Earth Image in Entirety

Chandrayaan’s first image of Earth in its entirety - The Hindu, April 11, 2009.

NASA's Mini-SAR Instrument Nears Completion of First Mapping Cycle

Mini-SAR Instrument Nears Completion of First Radar Mapping of Moon - NASA, April 2, 2009.

Mini-SAR Radar Imager Completes First Moon Mapping Cycle - Air & Space Smithsonian blog, April 2, 2009.

Scientific Findingds from Chandrayaan-1: 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2009)

Digital Elevation Models of the Lunar Surface (TMC Initial Results) - Gopala Krishna, et.al, 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), March 2009.

Terrain Mapping Camera and its Initial Results - Kiran Kumar, et.al, 40th LPSC, March 2009.

Monitoring of the Earth and Moon Radiation Environment using RADOM Instrument: Preliminary Results - Ts.P.Dachev, et.al., 40th LPSC, March 2009.

Modeling of the Moon Radiation Environment - G. De Angelis, et.al., 40th LPSC, 2009.

The Mini-SAR Imaging Radar on Chandrayaan-1 - P.D. Spudis, et.al., 40th LPSC, March 2009.

LUNAR ORIENTALE BASIN: TOPOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF IMPACT MELT REGION
FROM CHANDRAYAAN-1-TMC AND HYSI - Senthil Kumar, et.al., 40th LPSC, March 2009.

LASER RANGING EXPERIMENT ABOARD CHANDRAYAAN-1: INSTRUMENTATION AND
PRELIMINARY RESULTS - J.A. Kamalakar, et.al., 40th LPSC, March 2009.

INITIAL RESULTS FROM THE C1XS X-RAY SPECTROMETER ON CHANDRAYAAN-1 - M. Grande, etl.al, 40th LPSC, March 2009.

MINERALOGY OF THE LUNAR CRUST IN SPATIAL CONTEXT: FIRST RESULTS FROM THE MOON MINERALOGY MAPPER - C.M.Pieters, et.al., 40th LPSC, March 2009.

THE MOON MINERALOGY MAPPER (M3) IMAGING SPECTROMETER: EARLY ASSESSMENT OF THE SPECTRAL, RADIOMETRIC, SPATIAL AND UNIFORMITY CHARACTERISTICS - R.O.Green, et.al., 40th LPSC, March 2009.

THERMAL REMOVAL FROM MOON MINERALOGY MAPPER (M3) DATA - Roger Clark, et.al., 40th LPSC, March 2009.

LUNAR ORIENTALE BASIN: NATURE OF IMPACT MELT AND VOLCANIC FLOODING FROM CHANDRAYAAN-1 (M3, TMC, HySI) - C. Pieters, et.al., 40th LPSC, March 2009.

THE HYPER SPECTRAL IMAGER INSTRUMENT ON CHANDRAYAAN-1 - A.S. Kiran Kumar, et.al., 40th LPSC, March 2009.

HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY SPECTROMETER (HEX) ON CHANDRAYAAN-1: STUDIES OF VOLATILE TRANSPORT ON MOON AND MAPPING OF U, Th-RICH TERRAIN - P. Sreekumar, 40th LPSC, March 2009.

Lunar X-ray Signatures Detected by C1XS Instrument

C1XS Takes First Taste of Lunar X-Rays - SpaceFlightNow.com, 23 January 2009.

C1XS Instrument Onboard Chandrayaan-1 Catches First Glimpse of X-rays from the Moon - ISRO PR, 23 January, 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Camera C1XS detects X-ray Signals from a region near the Apollo Landing Sites - The Hindu, 23 January 2009.

Prolific Imaging by Chandrayaan-1 Instruments

Mini-SAR Radar Instrument from NASA aboard Chandrayaan-1 Reveals Never Seen Before strip of Lunar South Polar Crater - NASA PR, January 2009.

First Images of Moon's Hidden craters Taken by Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft - Cosmos Magazine, 19 January 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Instruments have beamed back over 45,000 Images in 75 Days - Times of India, 15 January 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Provides Pictures of Lunar Surface - Space Daily, 13 January 2009.

Chandrayaan-1 Mission & Instruments Booklet - ISRO, October 2008.